I rerun through the config, making no changes, and this time it does the NAT, stops Squid, and starts Squid without errors.

reboot and I can get on the web, but I can not access my webmail or cpanel from my webspace. I put in the domain name and it redirects to port 2082 and simply gives me a listing like I went to port 80. (this is not my FREESCO box obviously)also, I can access the webpage on the FREESCO box, but can not access the control panel, when I try to login for http://10.0.0.1:1082/cgi/usr.cgi I get:a 404 page

so I went back to the router, took out the two route lines and restarted, now I can get into my webmail and cpanel, and eBay... but not into my FREESCO control panel. so I reboot the router, and now I can access it.

so, default webserver (or customized) it works fine with 0.4.2, add in Squid and it all goes goofy when I try to make the transparent proxy. everything works fine with the default settings for squid, but I don't think it is doing what I want it to.

I had not seen this setting before and most likely this is not what is causing your current problem. But it is definitely wrong and should ne removed. You will need to go through the main setup and remove this entry as it should be set blank with no IP address in this setting because FREESCO is NOT your WINS server and can not be your WINS server unless you have Samba install and even then the setting would still be set wrong for that. What this setting is doing is making all of your DHCP clients local machine/URL lookups search for a server that doesn't exist and could cause all kinds of havoc.

If you are afraid that you might make a mistake. The chances are high that you will never learn anything.

and now this morning I get home, DHCP and control panel are not working... nothing unusual on the FREESCO box. checked all the settings, reboot and DHCP started working but I still can't access the control panel from my network. no changes made since the last msg.

I do not have a huge amount of free time, but I have not forgotten about this problem and I will try and get an answer by the end of this next weekend. As for when specific services quit running you can manually restart them very easily with commands such as

rc_control restartrc_dhcpd restartrc_dns restart

Also almost like a reboot you can use "rc_main restart", but it is a bit faster because the system doesn't have to completely shut down.

If you are afraid that you might make a mistake. The chances are high that you will never learn anything.